Associate Principal Scientist, Advanced Drug Delivery

At AstraZeneca, we unlock the power of What Science Can Do. With us you are free to discover, working with knowns and unknowns, towards treating, preventing, modifying and even curing some of the world's most complex diseases. Here we have the potential to grow our pipeline and positively impact the lives of billions of patients around the world.

Pharmaceutical Sciences at AstraZeneca delivers the therapies of the future through scientific leadership in drug delivery, design of synthetic routes, and manufacturing of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) and drug products. Our portfolio of projects spans traditional small molecules, peptides, oligonucleotides to RNA based therapeutics across AstraZeneca's therapy areas. Advanced Drug Delivery (ADD) resides within Pharmaceutical Sciences with a mission to provide novel products to AstraZeneca's clinical pipeline.

We are now looking for a talented and motivated Associate Principal Scientist to join our New Modality CMC Analytics team within the Advanced Drug Delivery (ADD) function in Gothenburg, Sweden.

What you will do

This is an exciting role where you will act as a key member of various project teams and provide your scientific expertise into analytical development and strategies within peptides drug projects. You will be responsible for the analytical deliveries from candidate drug nomination over phase II clinical trials including strong contribution to CMC (Chemistry, Manufacturing, Control) aspects and deliveries. In addition, you will develop and lead outscoring activities and strategies. As such, we are looking for a candidate with previous experience in supporting peptide projects in clinical phase from an analytical perspective and who also has an extensive understanding of drug delivery in the peptide area. The role will be expected to work cross-functionally supporting drug projects from early to late clinical phase and be involved with science & technology initiatives.

We are looking for you, who together with your team will make a difference for patients' lives every day. This through your ability to independently lead and motivate your team to achieve set goals within budget, time and to the right quality.

Essential Requirements

* 5+ years of industrial experience of analytical work with peptide therapeutics and MSc or PhD degree in a relevant scientific field (e.g. Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry or Biotechnology).
* In-depth knowledge of analytical development work and CMC deliveries of peptides drug projects
* Thorough understanding of principles and applications of GMP and remain up to date with regulatory and compliance guidelines as related to the role
* Ability to effectively communicate, network and build collaborative relationships with stakeholders across disciplines and cultures, internally and externally and independently lead and influence projects
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, and the ability to discuss complex ideas in a simple, easy to understand way
* Good understanding of the overall drug discovery and development process and an appreciation of how Pharmaceutical Sciences disciplines contribute to R&D
* Track record of scientific excellence in terms of publications, presentations and networking activities. Capable of, and desire for continuing to develop yourself in this area
* Innovative, with a passion driving scientific excellence and a continuous improvement mind-set
* Ability to communicate and write proficiently in English
* Thorough understanding of principles, applications and management of Safety, Health and Environment (SHE)

If your passion is science and you want to be part of a team that makes a bigger impact on patients' lives, then there's no better place to be.

With us there are many opportunities to develop yourself and your career. From our diverse portfolio and teamwork, to our cutting-edge innovations - it's a place for lifelong learning.

So, what's next?

Are you already imagining yourself joining us? Good, because we can't wait to hear from you!

For more information, please contact: Gunilla Nilsson, Team Leader, +46725821648

Gunilla.a.nilsson@astrazeneca.com

Welcome with your application no later than December 15, 2020.



Additional information

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